Find Out Where You Can Travel Without a Visa With This Passport Ranking Site
As concerns about security increase, visas are becoming more and more necessary when leaving the country. With the changing rules, knowing where you need a visa to travel and where you don’t can be a little tricky. Passport Index is a website that can help.
The site claims to update its information in real time and let you know what you might need to travel to another country with your passport, no matter where your passport is from. It has a database of all the passports in the world and offers travel information as well as a global passport ranking. The Passport Index also offers suggestions on how you can improve your global mobility score by obtaining an additional passport (assuming that something is available to you).
The site’s Passport Index allows you to sort passports by country, region, location on a map or color, and then compare them side by side, as well as the hospitality of the countries by destination.
For example, the United Arab Emirates does indeed have the most powerful passport in the world, with a visa-free travel rating of 168. By comparison, Afghanistan comes in last with a rating of 30.
The United States has a rating of 165 for visa-free travel, which places Ireland, Japan, Norway and France in the 4th highest visa-free travel rating.
If you travel frequently and especially consider yourself a “citizen of the world”, it might be interesting to browse the database. And even if you don’t, it can be helpful when you’re planning your next trip and need to figure out where your passport can take you.